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Photo: Mayo Advertiser/Sportsfile The votes on the final Man of the Match poll of our 2017 League campaign are in and counted. There’s no doubt about the winner either – it’s Aidan O’Shea. The big Breaffy man hasn’t started a match for us all year and there was only 25 minutes left to play at MacHale Park yesterday when he […]

Photo: MichaelMaye.com I’m well behind schedule in doing this – the rain that was falling in Mayo as I was leaving early this morning is about to start up here on the east coast now, by the looks of it – and it was my overnight stay in the west, coupled with the drive back first thing followed by other stuff […]

Going into today’s final round of this year’s League there were two potential routes open to us for preserving our Division One status. For long stretches of this afternoon’s combustible clash with Donegal it looked as if we were going to have to rely on the fall-back option of Roscommon beating Cavan to keep us up. Eventually, though, we looked […]

Today’s the day: it’s our final League match of the year and our final chance too to maintain our long-running top tier status for another year. Our opponents Donegal are already safe but most likely will need something from this fixture if they’re to make next Sunday’s Division One decider. We all know the Division One permutations at this stage. […]

Photo: @officialgaa The main focus for us this weekend is, understandably, on MacHale Park tomorrow afternoon and the match that’ll determine our League status for next year. It’s not the only match on this weekend, though, and there were a few games of note that took place today. What better place to start than at Croke Park? It was at HQ […]

We named our team a bit earlier on (and I could point a few fingers at those who detained me at the bar this evening, which delayed me from posting this, but I won’t – that’s one for another day, following the conclusion of this League campaign). Here it is: Mayo (NFL Division One v Donegal, 2/4/2017): David Clarke (Ballina […]

Image: @MayoGAA Our seventh and final match in this year’s NFL Division One campaign takes place this coming Sunday at MacHale Park. Donegal are the visitors for this one, Cormac Reilly has the whistle for it and the match throws in at Castlebar at 2pm. Everyone, I’m sure, knows the permutations from our point of view at this stage. With […]

The weekend is upon us once again and more on-field activity awaits. The U21s play tomorrow and then the seniors take the field on Sunday. The U21s have their second match in the North-West Cup. This one is against Donegal, which throws in at James Stephens Park in Ballina tomorrow at 2.30pm. With both of the teams involved tomorrow having […]

Saturday sees us make our sixth successive appearance in the All-Ireland Series, the latest episode in what is an unprecedented period of competitiveness for us in the championship. We’re become used to being still in with a shout for honours come August each year, even if ultimate success remains as elusive as ever for us. When we take the field […]

Photo: @MayoGAA Well, it’s been a productive weekend for the county, with two of its less heralded teams claiming significant wins. Both the hurlers and the Junior footballers had to battle for their respective victories but in both cases their hard work and effort paid off. The hurlers looked to be well on their way to an easy enough win […]